Public Cloud Jobs in England

Public Cloud
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 425 260 100
Rank change year-on-year -165 -160 +141
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 279 901 2,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.57% 1.05% 3.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.56% 3.02% 7.52%
Number of salaries quoted 181 700 1,079
10th Percentile £48,500 £47,375 £44,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,669 £55,610
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £97,290
90th Percentile £125,000 £107,500 £117,236
UK median annual salary £77,500 £67,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year +14.81% -8.47% -1.67%

All Generic Skills
England

Public Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 17,928 29,798 39,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.71% 34.76% 43.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8,772 20,825 21,320
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,478
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in England

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in England.

Salary trend for Public Cloud in England

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in England

Public Cloud
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Cloud within the England region over the 6 months to 14 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -26 104 £80,000 +3.23% 198
North of England -131 66 £74,870 +19.25% 80
North West -119 38 £77,500 +23.44% 40
South East +67 33 £55,000 -15.38% 87
Yorkshire -18 24 £63,500 +1.14% 26
South West +29 22 £99,069 +40.37% 25
Midlands -17 16 £70,000 +14.37% 47
West Midlands +5 13 £70,000 +14.37% 31
East of England +35 11 £62,500 +25.00% 24
North East +14 4 £60,603 -3.47% 15
East Midlands +4 3 £68,525 +14.21% 13
Public Cloud
UK

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.15%) Apache
2 6 (2.15%) IIS
3 4 (1.43%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.08%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.72%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.72%) Confluence
5 2 (0.72%) nginx
5 2 (0.72%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.36%) Jetty
Applications
1 10 (3.58%) MS Visio
2 9 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.36%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.08%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.72%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.72%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.36%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.36%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 157 (56.27%) Azure
2 128 (45.88%) AWS
3 118 (42.29%) GCP
4 37 (13.26%) PaaS
4 37 (13.26%) SaaS
5 32 (11.47%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (7.89%) IaaS
7 19 (6.81%) Pulumi
8 16 (5.73%) Entra ID
9 10 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (3.58%) Azure Machine Learning
9 10 (3.58%) Serverless
10 8 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.87%) OpenShift
11 7 (2.51%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.51%) GitHub
11 7 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.15%) npm
13 5 (1.79%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 48 (17.20%) Firewall
2 35 (12.54%) WAN
3 33 (11.83%) SD-WAN
4 29 (10.39%) LAN
5 25 (8.96%) Ethernet
6 22 (7.89%) Cisco ISE
7 20 (7.17%) DNS
8 15 (5.38%) DHCP
9 13 (4.66%) SAN
10 12 (4.30%) IPv4
10 12 (4.30%) TCP/IP
11 10 (3.58%) Structured Cabling
11 10 (3.58%) VLAN
12 9 (3.23%) BGP
12 9 (3.23%) Cisco IOS
12 9 (3.23%) OSPF
12 9 (3.23%) VPN
12 9 (3.23%) Wireless
13 8 (2.87%) MPLS
13 8 (2.87%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.38%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.66%) Big Data
3 12 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (3.94%) Cloud Spanner
5 10 (3.58%) MongoDB
6 8 (2.87%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.15%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.15%) RDBMS
7 6 (2.15%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.43%) Tableau
9 3 (1.08%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.72%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.72%) Bigtable
10 2 (0.72%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.72%) HBase
10 2 (0.72%) Impala
10 2 (0.72%) MySQL
10 2 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (9.32%) Git
1 26 (9.32%) Jenkins
2 16 (5.73%) JIRA
3 10 (3.58%) CircleCI
4 7 (2.51%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (2.15%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.15%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.15%) Visual Studio
5 6 (2.15%) webpack
6 5 (1.79%) GitLab
7 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.36%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.36%) JUnit
7 1 (0.36%) Selenium
7 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.36%) Vagrant
General
1 89 (31.90%) Finance
2 64 (22.94%) Social Skills
3 54 (19.35%) Banking
4 26 (9.32%) Law
5 23 (8.24%) Public Sector
6 22 (7.89%) Telecoms
7 20 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (3.58%) Retail
9 8 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.15%) Games
11 5 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.43%) Back Office
12 4 (1.43%) Legal
13 3 (1.08%) iGaming
13 3 (1.08%) Marketing
13 3 (1.08%) Publishing
14 2 (0.72%) Billing
14 2 (0.72%) Electronics
14 2 (0.72%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (24.01%) Architect
1 67 (24.01%) Senior
2 39 (13.98%) Software Engineer
3 37 (13.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (8.96%) Lead
4 25 (8.96%) Network Architect
5 22 (7.89%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 21 (7.53%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (6.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (6.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (5.02%) Consultant
9 13 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (4.30%) Senior Architect
11 11 (3.94%) Security Architect
11 11 (3.94%) Security Engineer
12 10 (3.58%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (3.58%) Senior Software Engineer
13 9 (3.23%) Java Engineer
13 9 (3.23%) Junior
13 9 (3.23%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (10.75%) Node.js
2 23 (8.24%) JSON
3 19 (6.81%) RESTful
4 16 (5.73%) Kafka
4 16 (5.73%) Spring Boot
5 15 (5.38%) .NET
5 15 (5.38%) React
6 11 (3.94%) REST
7 10 (3.58%) gRPC
8 9 (3.23%) AngularJS
9 7 (2.51%) Web Services
10 6 (2.15%) .NET Core
10 6 (2.15%) ASP.NET
10 6 (2.15%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (2.15%) Jest
11 4 (1.43%) ARM Templates
11 4 (1.43%) Middleware
12 3 (1.08%) Loki
12 3 (1.08%) scikit-learn
12 3 (1.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 52 (18.64%) Data Centre
2 39 (13.98%) Cloud Native
3 29 (10.39%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (10.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (8.96%) Private Cloud
6 24 (8.60%) Management Information System
7 20 (7.17%) Algorithms
8 19 (6.81%) Data Structures
9 16 (5.73%) Product Ownership
10 11 (3.94%) Security Posture
11 10 (3.58%) Reference Data
11 10 (3.58%) Replication
12 7 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (2.15%) Distributed Applications
13 6 (2.15%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (2.15%) Tandem
14 5 (1.79%) Driving Licence
15 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
16 3 (1.08%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 67 (24.01%) Linux
2 55 (19.71%) Windows
3 18 (6.45%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 8 (2.87%) Android
5 8 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.43%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.08%) Debian
7 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.72%) Unix
9 1 (0.36%) CentOS
9 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.36%) SUSE
9 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (34.77%) CI/CD
2 85 (30.47%) DevOps
2 85 (30.47%) Infrastructure as Code
3 63 (22.58%) Agile
4 56 (20.07%) Roadmaps
5 47 (16.85%) Software Engineering
6 45 (16.13%) Cloud Security
6 45 (16.13%) Mentoring
7 42 (15.05%) Microservices
8 39 (13.98%) Test Automation
9 37 (13.26%) High Availability
10 36 (12.90%) Coaching
11 35 (12.54%) Deployment Automation
12 34 (12.19%) Analytics
13 33 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (11.47%) Computer Science
15 31 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
15 31 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 28 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 25 (8.96%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 103 (36.92%) Python
2 43 (15.41%) Java
3 29 (10.39%) PowerShell
4 28 (10.04%) SQL
5 22 (7.89%) C#
6 19 (6.81%) JavaScript
7 18 (6.45%) Bicep
8 16 (5.73%) Go
9 15 (5.38%) TypeScript
10 14 (5.02%) Ruby
11 10 (3.58%) Bash
12 7 (2.51%) Scala
13 6 (2.15%) Clojure
13 6 (2.15%) Elixir
13 6 (2.15%) Rust
14 4 (1.43%) R
15 1 (0.36%) Groovy
15 1 (0.36%) Perl
15 1 (0.36%) PHP
15 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (19.00%) Degree
2 32 (11.47%) Security Cleared
3 30 (10.75%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.38%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (3.94%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.94%) CCNA
6 9 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.87%) Network+ Certification
8 6 (2.15%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.15%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.43%) CCNP
10 3 (1.08%) CISSP
10 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.72%) CRISC
11 2 (0.72%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.72%) PhD
11 2 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.87%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.08%) NIST
3 3 (1.08%) QA
3 3 (1.08%) SLA
4 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.72%) GDPR
4 2 (0.72%) NCSC
4 2 (0.72%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (18.28%) Docker
2 27 (9.68%) Active Directory
3 23 (8.24%) VMware NSX
4 22 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (6.81%) Hyper-V
6 12 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (3.94%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (1.08%) vSphere
10 2 (0.72%) HDFS
11 1 (0.36%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.36%) KVM
11 1 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 107 (38.35%) Kubernetes
2 104 (37.28%) Terraform
3 73 (26.16%) Ansible
4 29 (10.39%) FortiGate
5 28 (10.04%) Puppet
6 23 (8.24%) Progress Chef
7 21 (7.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (6.45%) Podman
9 13 (4.66%) SCCM
9 13 (4.66%) WSUS
10 7 (2.51%) Istio
10 7 (2.51%) Prometheus
11 6 (2.15%) Argo
11 6 (2.15%) Grafana
12 4 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (1.43%) Consul
13 3 (1.08%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.72%) Hadoop YARN
14 2 (0.72%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 54 (19.35%) VMware
3 50 (17.92%) Google
4 42 (15.05%) Cisco
5 26 (9.32%) CheckPoint
6 25 (8.96%) F5
7 22 (7.89%) Blue Coat
8 16 (5.73%) Citrix
9 11 (3.94%) SAP
10 9 (3.23%) Red Hat
10 9 (3.23%) Veeam
11 5 (1.79%) Dell
11 5 (1.79%) Draytek
11 5 (1.79%) Ubiquiti
12 4 (1.43%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.43%) Oracle
12 4 (1.43%) SolarWinds
13 3 (1.08%) New Relic
13 3 (1.08%) Okta
13 3 (1.08%) Palo Alto